A lot can happen in 28 days! SPOILERS!!!

Rating: 6/10 (4 November 2002)

The start of the film:
The opening scene with the activists setting free the monkeys served as a quick explanation of how the virus was started - however considering the monkeys were all "infected with rage" they seemed extremely placid! I think that this could have just been spoken about rather than having to see it - it didn't really add that much to the film - as it has been used loads of times before.
Perhaps the opening would have been more powerful if it had begun with the guy, Jim, waking up in the hospital - that would have been far creepier! I thought this section of the film was fantastic - in an Open Your Eyes/Vanilla Sky kind of way. It was very great to see London so deserted! It might be possible to get a bit of shopping done! Obviously you'd have to kill a few zombies - but that's a small price to pay!
I didn't think that the woman's character was believable at all - I thought that she was a real pain in the backside.
Middle of the film:
I liked the idea of meeting up with the guy and his daughter in the tower block - but surely with all the child actors in the world Danny Boyle could have found a better one that her! She was sooo wooden! Bless her!
The taxi through the tunnel was good too - it was very tense.
It was interesting to see their journey to find the soldiers they hear on the radio.
End of the film
The end seemed to be as if Alex Garland got fed up with it and went "Oh I don't know they get rescued. Nobody will care anyway".

Questions:
1) Why didn't the zombies (Oh, sorry, "infected with rage people" eat each other? Why did they chase the non- zombies?
2) I know men are supposed to be obsessed with sex, but bloody heel, they had only been in the house for just over a month! And they wanted to rape the women and start a new human race! Come on!
3) Posh Captain said that they had covered the lawn with land mines - why on earth would he send his men out to "clean up the bodies'!
4) If one little tiny of drop can turn you into a zombie if it gets in your blood don't you think it'd be a bit risky having the "Gimp" zombie in the back yard! He was spewing up blood an inch from were they where!
5) Even when the soldiers blew up the zombies on the fence and blood and good went everywhere not one drop of blood went on them!
Cinematography
I don' think that MiniDV is good enough to hold up at the cinema. I know that one of the reasons it was chosen was probably because it is supposed to look more "real" but it doesn't seem to give that effect. John Carpenter's films from the seventies, like Assault on Precinct 13 or Escape from New York look a bit "cheapo" but not in the same way as this film. It makes the movie look a student's end of year project.

Soundtrack
I thought that the soundtrack was awful! The version of "abide with me" was so pretentious! And that music in the supermarket! Did the director get one of his mates with a Bontempi Organ to write it! Or was it one of those free music sample CDROMs you get!
Overall Comments
I think that the film was okay. I think it would have been a million times better it was filmed on 35MM, with a completely new soundtrack, better actors (except for the main guy), a better ending, better editing and a new ending.
And WHY OH WHY didn't that woman kill Jim with Machete when she thought he was a zombie? That would have made the film sooo cool!